Threaten State’s Wheat


showers, which create high humidity.” This winter’s weather has created an


ideal environment for stripe rust. The fun- gus that causes stripe rust blows in an- nually on wind currents from Central America and historically has been de- tected much later in the growing season. “With the mild winter temperatures and


the frequent rainfall, finding stripe rust is not unexpected,” Allen said. As of early February, specialists are


suggesting no fungicide applications yet for wheat fields. Wheat is more suscepti- ble to rust diseases in early growth stages and becomes more tolerant with age. “Presently, it is important to determine


the specific wheat variety planted in each field and determine that variety’s resist- ance to stripe rust and other important yield-limiting diseases,” Allen said. “If a particular variety is labeled as moderately resistant or resistant, monitoring for the disease will likely be more economical than simply making a fungicide applica- tion.” Rust diseases are a serious threat to


wheat but are not normally treated dur- ing the crop’s vegetative stages. The same


conditions that promoted development of the disease also moved wheat out of its normal winter dormancy. Erick Larson, Extension grain crops


agronomist, said freeze damage is a big- ger threat to the crop right now than the early appearance of stripe rust. “Wheat needs to be dormant during the


winter and then grow slowly through Feb- ruary. It should not really hit its stride and grow actively until early to mid- March,” Larson said. “The warm weather that we’ve experi-


enced this winter has prompted wheat to begin growing much earlier than normal, which poses a serious threat for freeze damage later this spring, particularly if we have a hard freeze during March or early April,” he said. “When wheat is still 4 to 6 inches tall, it is much more tolerant of freezing temperatures than it is at later growth stages, especially near heading.” Larson said the biggest concern now is


that a late spring freeze would signifi- cantly diminish wheat yield. Later in the season, growers will have to make deci- sions on how best to manage stripe rust in their wheat fields.


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rice for research and 3 cents per hun- dred pounds for promotion for the next five years. The totals showed 357 producers


La. Farmers Pass Rice Referendum L


BATON ROUGE, LA.


ouisiana rice farmers overwhelm- ingly agreed to continue paying a nickel for every 100 pounds of


voting for the research check-off and 65 voting against, or 85 percent in favor of the measure and 15 percent against. The promotion referendum was ap-


proved 321 to 107, or 75 percent for and 25 percent opposed. Jackie Loewer, a rice farmer from


Branch, La., and chairman of the Louisiana Rice Research Board, said the vote shows that an overwhelming majority of farmers approve of check- off funding. Volunteer farmers serve on the pro-


motion and research boards, and they decide how the money is to be spent. “As farmers, everyone on both


boards knows how difficult farming has become, and we will continue to


carefully weigh how each dollar is spent,” Loewer said. The bulk of the funds for research


is earmarked for work at the LSU Ag- Center Rice Research Station. “I can assure farmers that they are


getting their money’s worth,” said Steve Linscombe, Rice Research Sta- tion director. “A continuation of these check-off funds means that research can continue to develop new varieties and to improve rice farming prac- tices.” The funds for promoting rice are


crucial, said Kevin Berken, of Lake Arthur, La., who is chairman of the promotion board. “If we can’t sell a crop, then it does-


n’t matter how successful farmers are at growing rice,” Berken said. “Ap- proval of these funds means we can carry on with the very successful do- mestic and international promotion activities that these funds support.”


“Bottom line is, without research we


couldn’t grow it, and without promo- tion, we can’t sell it,” Loewer said. ∆


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